How can you say no?

"Leon" <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I got another request from a customer that I have built 3 projects for in
> the last year, the last being the walnut curio cabinets.
>
> This is like playing golf. You have a bad round and on the eighteenth,
> you chip in from 50 yards out.
>
> I share with you the type requests that put a smile on my face.
>
>
> Dear Leon,
> You must say yes!
> I am in need of a wooden box for an embroidered knot garden. I make the
> knot garden, you make the box. I have the cardboard box that I will give
> to Kim tomorrow for the dimensions, if you are willing. I would like a
> shadow box on top too. Plus the front side that could be opened. Really
> hoping you are interested.
> Sincerely,
> Joanne

"Embroidered knot garden, shadow boxes, curio cabinets? There is a
disturbing pattern here. Are you turning into an artsy fartsy woodworker?
;-)

Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> On 4/22/2014 12:10 AM, Bill wrote:
>>
>> I had no idea of what a "knot garden" was until I googled it. Be glad
>> she is making that part! : )
>>
> I'll have to do some research also.. I'm clueless.
>

It's probably something like a piled up extension cord or rope. They
tangle and create knots just like a garden grows weeds. :-)

Puckdropper
--
Make it to fit, don't make it fit.

On Monday, April 21, 2014 10:52:00 PM UTC-5, Leon wrote:
> I got another request from a customer
Dear Leon, You must say yes! I am in need of a wooden box for an embroidered knot garden.

Hah! A somewhat similar request, I had, to make the vertical planters for the master gardeners. Back then, I had no idea what a vertical planter was.

It's these atypical projects, I find, that can be challenging, in their own right. Kinna like applying one idea/application for/to another media/genre.

I'll look forward to the results. You'll have to show us Joanne's embroidery, also. Appreciating another's skills, in a different media, is enjoyable and appreciated, also, as with your wife's quilts.

Sonny

On 4/22/2014 8:38 AM, Lee Michaels wrote:
>
>
> "Leon" <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> I got another request from a customer that I have built 3 projects for
>> in the last year, the last being the walnut curio cabinets.
>>
>> This is like playing golf. You have a bad round and on the
>> eighteenth, you chip in from 50 yards out.
>>
>> I share with you the type requests that put a smile on my face.
>>
>>
>> Dear Leon,
>> You must say yes!
>> I am in need of a wooden box for an embroidered knot garden. I make
>> the knot garden, you make the box. I have the cardboard box that I
>> will give to Kim tomorrow for the dimensions, if you are willing. I
>> would like a shadow box on top too. Plus the front side that could be
>> opened. Really hoping you are interested.
>> Sincerely,
>> Joanne
>
> "Embroidered knot garden, shadow boxes, curio cabinets? There is a
> disturbing pattern here. Are you turning into an artsy fartsy
> woodworker? ;-)
>
>
>


Ah'rek'n so. LOL. Swingman accused me of this when I designed and
built the walnut entertainment nook innerd's

On 4/22/2014 12:10 AM, Bill wrote:
> Leon wrote:
>> I got another request from a customer that I have built 3 projects for
>> in the last year, the last being the walnut curio cabinets.
>>
>> This is like playing golf. You have a bad round and on the
>> eighteenth, you chip in from 50 yards out.
>>
>> I share with you the type requests that put a smile on my face.
>>
>>
>> Dear Leon,
>> You must say yes!
>> I am in need of a wooden box for an embroidered knot garden. I make
>> the knot garden,
>
> I had no idea of what a "knot garden" was until I googled it. Be glad
> she is making that part! : )
>
I'll have to do some research also.. I'm clueless.




> Bill
>
>> you make the box. I have the cardboard box that I will give to Kim
>> tomorrow for the dimensions, if you are willing. I would like a shadow
>> box on top too. Plus the front side that could be opened. Really
>> hoping you are interested.
>> Sincerely,
>> Joanne
>

On 4/22/2014 9:05 AM, woodchucker wrote:
> On 4/22/2014 9:51 AM, Greg Guarino wrote:
>> On 4/22/2014 9:42 AM, woodchucker wrote:
>>
>>> Plus the front side that could be opened.
>>
>> Armed with 30 or 40 seconds of familiarity with knot gardens, I am
>> puzzled by the specification above. Why would one open one side of a
>> planter box, and how would one get it closed again if some of the soil
>> shifts?
>>
>>
> I think it's not a growing garden I think it's embroidery.
>
>


I think you are right, she is a major sewing person.

On 4/21/2014 11:52 PM, Leon wrote:

> I share with you the type requests that put a smile on my face.
>
>
> Dear Leon,
> You must say yes!

That first sentence is worthy of a 20% price increase!

On 4/22/2014 9:51 AM, Greg Guarino wrote:
> On 4/22/2014 9:42 AM, woodchucker wrote:
>
>> Plus the front side that could be opened.
>
> Armed with 30 or 40 seconds of familiarity with knot gardens, I am
> puzzled by the specification above. Why would one open one side of a
> planter box, and how would one get it closed again if some of the soil
> shifts?
>
>
I think it's not a growing garden I think it's embroidery.


--
Jeff

On 4/21/2014 11:52 PM, Leon wrote:
> I got another request from a customer that I have built 3 projects for
> in the last year, the last being the walnut curio cabinets.
>
> This is like playing golf. You have a bad round and on the eighteenth,
> you chip in from 50 yards out.
>
> I share with you the type requests that put a smile on my face.
>
>
> Dear Leon,
> You must say yes!
> I am in need of a wooden box for an embroidered knot garden. I make the
> knot garden, you make the box. I have the cardboard box that I will give
> to Kim tomorrow for the dimensions, if you are willing. I would like a
> shadow box on top too. Plus the front side that could be opened. Really
> hoping you are interested.
> Sincerely,
> Joanne

Looks like too much work for you Leon ;-) That might take you all morning.

--
Jeff

Leon wrote:
> I got another request from a customer that I have built 3 projects for
> in the last year, the last being the walnut curio cabinets.
>
> This is like playing golf. You have a bad round and on the
> eighteenth, you chip in from 50 yards out.
>
> I share with you the type requests that put a smile on my face.
>
>
> Dear Leon,
> You must say yes!
> I am in need of a wooden box for an embroidered knot garden. I make
> the knot garden,

I had no idea of what a "knot garden" was until I googled it. Be glad
she is making that part! : )

Bill

> you make the box. I have the cardboard box that I will give to Kim
> tomorrow for the dimensions, if you are willing. I would like a shadow
> box on top too. Plus the front side that could be opened. Really
> hoping you are interested.
> Sincerely,
> Joanne

On 4/22/2014 9:42 AM, woodchucker wrote:

> Plus the front side that could be opened.

Armed with 30 or 40 seconds of familiarity with knot gardens, I am
puzzled by the specification above. Why would one open one side of a
planter box, and how would one get it closed again if some of the soil
shifts?




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In article <[email protected]>,
Greg Guarino <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 4/22/2014 9:42 AM, woodchucker wrote:
>
>> Plus the front side that could be opened.
>
>Armed with 30 or 40 seconds of familiarity with knot gardens, I am
>puzzled by the specification above. Why would one open one side of a
>planter box, and how would one get it closed again if some of the soil
>shifts?
>
>

I thought the same til I googled for "_embroidered_ knot garden"
--
There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat,
plausible, and wrong." (H L Mencken)

Larry W. - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org

On 4/22/2014 2:20 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/21/2014 11:52 PM, Leon wrote:
>
>> I share with you the type requests that put a smile on my face.
>>
>>
>> Dear Leon,
>> You must say yes!
>
> That first sentence is worthy of a 20% price increase!
>

His wife will override that... :-O

--
Jeff